ANT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Culture, Sony Music Entertainment, High Culture
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Lecture 1
Anthropology, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life
-Culture Terms and Concepts
-the author in the textbook has said that the definitions are a blur in the text
-the terms are used in a different century (19th century)
•Culture
-culture is the primary adaptation of survival not through physical, size of our teeth
-this is how we adapt to the world
-unties all the anthropology together
•High culture, folk culture/popular culture/public culture
-overtime the meaning of words changed
-terms do not refer to a element that is not changing
-terms we are using are redefined by people through history which is part of the
process
-popular culture are historical novels that are supported by industrial technology
that is geared towards large audience located anywhere
•social boundaries become dissolved
•this is also called oral culture or folk culture
•or sometimes public culture terms is used
•Everyday life
-term important for anthropology because you are studying everyday life
-they are not being driven by myth
-society is constituted by routine behaviour and experience
-routinization is a important aspect of maintenance of culture
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
-emphasis is on common people
•Vital Role?
-Expression of …
-Well-being of ….
-Theories of Popular Culture
-two main schools of thought
-1. mass culture
•took a negative approach
•work was rooted in marxism and communistic
•1. debased in comparison to high culture
•2. opiate for the masses
-2. populist
•1. intrinsic and extrinsic rewards
-money is a extrinsic reward
•2. escape, individual choice
•3. cultural hybridization
-Popular Culture is Dynamic and Enduring
-1. What examples are given of the persistence or endurance of popular culture?
•example of a chewing gum, musical instruments
-2. what examples are given of the dynamism of popular culture ?
•changeable aspects
•examples are: rock and roll music, you look at how to begins, look at the era, how it
has evolved
•all the different influences that could be incorporated into rock and roll
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Document Summary
The author in the textbook has said that the de nitions are a blur in the text. The terms are used in a different century (19th century: culture. Culture is the primary adaptation of survival not through physical, size of our teeth. This is how we adapt to the world. Unties all the anthropology together: high culture, folk culture/popular culture/public culture. Terms do not refer to a element that is not changing. Terms we are using are rede ned by people through history which is part of the process. Term important for anthropology because you are studying everyday life. They are not being driven by myth. Society is constituted by routine behaviour and experience. Routinization is a important aspect of maintenance of culture. 1. mass culture: took a negative approach, work was rooted in marxism and communistic, 1. debased in comparison to high culture, 2. opiate for the masses. 2. populist: 1. intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.
